How newspapers reported Cameron's EU speech before he made it

A look at today's front pages shows how history repeats itself over and over again. We are back, yet again, to the debate about Britain's relationship with Europe - one of the most dominant political themes since the early 1960s.

It argued that Cameron had agreed to give people a vote because of pressure from Conservative-minded voters and Express readers but "much remains to be achieved." It concluded:

"This is not yet the end of Britain's disastrous entanglement with the nascent European empire. But we hope to look back on this day at some happy juncture in the future and think of it as the beginning of the end."

The Sun agreed. Its editorial started off by saying: "David Cameron deserves considerable credit for going where his predecessors would not."

But it doesn't trust the prime minister, reminding its audience that he had "weaselled out of the 'cast-iron' referendum guarantee he gave Sun readers six years ago."

It was left to the Mirror, after contending that Cameron's vote pledge was "a dangerous gamble with Britain's political and economic future", to explain what lay behind the initiative:

"This is about placating the right in his party and saving Tory seats at the next election by quashing the threat posed from UKIP."